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Akira Yamaoka (born February 6, 1968, Niigata, Japan) is a Japanese video game composer, sound designer, guitarist, and producer, who is best known for composing the music in the Silent Hill series by Konami.
He also worked as a producer on the series, as well as serving as a composer and producer of the Silent Hill film and its sequel.

Yamaoka joined Konami on September 21, 1993. He immediately began to work on the games Contra: Hard Corps, Sparkster, and Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2. He then shortly thereafter worked on the music for the PC Engine and Sega CD versions of Snatcher. When Konami began searching for a musician to compose Silent Hill's score, Yamaoka volunteered because he thought he was the only one capable of making the soundtrack. Although initially hired as a composer, he soon became involved in overall sound design.

On December 2, 2009, it was announced that Yamaoka was leaving his long term employer Konami. On February 3, 2010, it was announced that Yamaoka has joined Grasshopper Manufacture and was working with Goichi Suda and Shinji Mikami on their action game, Shadows of the Damned. He was first appointed to the role of chief sound officer at Grasshopper, but became involved in aspects of game production as well.

On August 10, 2012, Yamaoka announced he would be releasing a second solo album in late 2012, one "different from the usual Silent Hill music." On October 31, 2012, he announced via Facebook, that the new three track Spanish language single "Revolución" would premiere at V-CON during a live performance. In 2014, he expressed interest in returning as a composer for Silent Hills, although the project was later canceled.

In late October and early November 2015, Yamaoka and his band performed tracks from the Silent Hill series at nine live events in cities across the United Kingdom, titled "Silent Hill Live". In July 2016, Yamaoka performed live at the BitSummit 4th indie game festival in Kyoto, Japan.

Before working as a video game composer, Yamaoka initially sought a career as a designer, but instead became a musician after studying product design at Tokyo Art College.

Yamaoka stated in a 2009 interview that his favorite game creator is Suda 51, and his favorite video game is No More Heroes. His favorite of his own soundtracks is Silent Hill 2.
In March 2011, Yamaoka auctioned some of his musical instruments for the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami Play for Japan flood relief. In a 2014 interview, he stated his favorite film was Dario Argento's Suspiria.
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